Bloomberg's Simon Kennedy and Brendan Murray write about the Treasury's Inspector General:
Treasury Inspector Expands Election-Year Inquiry (Update1)
By Simon Kennedy and Brendan Murray
April 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Treasury's inspector general... widened a preliminary inquiry to include news releasesthat promoted the Bush administration's tax cuts.
In question are April 9 documents from the Treasury's officeof public affairs that calculate the benefit of Bush's $1.7trillion in tax cuts and highlight the work of the InternalRevenue Service. U.S. Representative Charles Rangel, of New York,the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, askedActing Inspector General Dennis Schindel last week to broaden hisinformal investigation of department staff.
Democrats, including Rangel and House Minority Leader NancyPelosi, have complained that the research may have violated U.S.law, which bars federal employees from engaging in partisanpolitical activities.
``We are going to expand the preliminary inquiry into otherTreasury press releases,'' Rich Delmar, counsel to the inspectorgeneral, said in an interview. ``We'll look at how the pressreleases were generated. We're not making any assumptions aboutwrongdoing.''... The statements that are now being studied include oneentitled ``April 15 Tax Day Reminder: Millions of Individuals andFamilies are Benefiting from Tax Relief Plan.''...
Dan Maffei, a spokesman for Democrats on the House Ways andMeans Committee, said Rangel ``believes there is a differencebetween representing the administration and electioneering.'' ``It is quite appropriate for the inspector general toaddress whether there has been a pattern of crossing the line,''he said...
It does appear that John Snow's acquiescence in this has made a good many Treasury staff even more unhappy campers than they were before. Nobody in this administration is getting out of it with a reputation.
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"America has a choice: It can continue to grow the economy and create new jobs as the President's policies are doing; or it can raise taxes on American families and small businesses, hurting economic recovery and future job creation."
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Brad you are wrong, wrong, wrong!
"Nobody in this administration is getting out of it with a reputation."
Au contraire. They will have reputations. Just not good ones.
Posted by: JDC on April 21, 2004 11:49 AMBrad you are wrong, wrong, wrong!
"Nobody in this administration is getting out of it with a reputation."
Au contraire. They will have reputations. Just not good ones.
Posted by: JDC on April 21, 2004 11:51 AMMaybe the administration could raise some money by selling sexual favors from the treasury staff on street corners. After all, it's not all that big a step beyond this . . .
Posted by: rea on April 21, 2004 12:00 PMI dunno rea.
If I were an honest street walker, I'm not sure that I'd want to associate with the treasury folks.
Posted by: Matthew Saroff on April 21, 2004 12:09 PMDoes anyone seriously believe the Bush administration lets Treasury write their own press releases? I bet they don't even get to read the final copy.
Why do you think O'Neill was fired?
ONeill's book explains that O'Neill refused to let the WH write his final press release. He also refused to be photographed with Larry LIndsey.
Posted by: bakho on April 21, 2004 01:00 PMDid Stalin and his underlings care about their reputations?
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